Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
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Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
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Sometimes you tell the day
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
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I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.
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I always loved playing video games. It was something my mom did, and my sister played as well.
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We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared.
